In Catching Fire, there are timed zones of disasters that you must be outside of. In BR, zones are announced, in which if you are caught inside of, your necklace explodes and you die. The same goes for BR-II, except with a twist: this time kids are paired along gender so that if one dies, so does the other.
In Catching Fire, the government believes that the heroine cheated the system, and a new game is created. In BR-II, the government changes the rules and the heroin becomes the target with a whole new set of victims who are forced to participate.
In Catching Fire, a plan is hatched to escape the game among a group of participants -- no doubt something everyone would do, if not for the threat of death. In BR-II, the heroin and his group have long planned an escape route and a failsafe device to help them escape.
In Catching Fire, the heroine's family is discovered to be alive. In BR-II, the heroin and heroine are reunited, against all odds, in a safe part of the world, outside of the government's purview.
There are some other similarities between BR-II and Collins' third book, Mockingjay. Combined, there are just too many matching themes for me to believe that this is chance coincidence. Is it enough to use the P word?
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| Via Movie Asia. |
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